No more orange revolutions in Ukraine - Yanukovich.

KIEV, November 28 (Itar-Tass) -- One of Ukraine's leading presidential
candidates, leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovich, has promised
that he will win a convincing victory in the January 2010 elections and
thereby prevent another orange revolution in Ukraine.

In the statement he made in the Black Sea port city of Odessa on
Friday Yanukovich was referring to the events of five years ago, when
under the pressure of mass protest actions his victory in the second round
was annulled and Viktor Yushchenko emerged the winner in the re-run.
"There will be no repetition of the events of 2004. Ours will be a
landslide victory," Yanukovich said. "It will be a sentence to the
authorities that stole our victory five years ago."
As he looked back on the events in Ukraine that were dubbed "orange
revolution," Yanukovich said that he was certain he gained the upper hand
in the presidential election runoff, but eventually gave the victory away
to the other candidate in order to prevent bloodshed.

.Gazprom to increase direct gas supplies to French consumers-Miller.

RAMBOUILLET, France, November 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's gas giant
Gazprom plans to increase direct supplies to consumers in France.
Currently, Gazprom's share on the French market is a little over 25
percent, but it is most important that the company already makes direct
supplies to French consumers, and their amount constitutes about 500
billion cubic meters, the company's CEO Alexei Miller said.
Gazprom will increase direct supplies in the near future, Miller said,
without elaborating though, how significantly the growth might be.
"The greater, the better," he remarked.

.Russian FM interested in continuous working dialogue with NGOs.

MOSCOW, November 28 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry is
interested in maintaining a continuous working dialogue with the
non-governmental organizations allowing to take into account the opinion
of Russia's civil society. Fresh confirmation of this readiness was voiced
at a meeting between the chiefs of the Interior Ministry's departments
with representatives of Russian non-governmental organizations, the
external relations department of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian
Orthodox Church and the United Nations Information Center in Moscow on
Friday.
"The discussion encompassed a wide range of issues concerning the
Russian Foreign Ministry's assistance to the country's non-governmental
organizations in their movement towards admission to the world NGO
community and non-governmental segments of international organizations,
first and foremost, the United Nations," the Russian Foreign Ministry
said. "The representatives of non-governmental organizations reviewed
their participation in the Russian delegation to the 64th UN General
Assembly session (taking part in it were twelve Russian NGO's, including
the Russian Peace Fund, the World Russian People's Congress, the Russian
UN Association, the international public fund For Survival and the
Development of Humanity), the Foreign Ministry said. "They participated in
various activities held within the framework of the session related to the
competences of the UN General Assembly's third committee (social,
humanitarian and cultural affairs and human rights) and the -
inter-civilizational group of problems."
"The participants also considered the possibility of plugging the
Russian NGO community into specific projects being implemented under the
auspices of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in keeping with Russia's
national plan for relations with the alliance," the Russian Foreign
Ministry said. "The interest was confirmed in maintaining a continuous
working dialogue that allows the Foreign Ministry's departments organize
their work in accordance with the opinion of Russian civil society and
lets the NGO's members step up the role of the non-governmental sector at
international forums."